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Rated as one of the top podcast hosts, Jim Rembach interviews guests on this unique leadership podcast that features real-life and personal stories of when they have failed and how they got over the hump. For more than four years, the show has generated thousands of leadership tips, quotes, and inspirational stories in a fun way. Get insights and information on leadership, employee experience and customer experience. Come join the fun with the Hump Day Hoedown where guests provide robust yet ...

The BLBS podcast is created for ruckus makers. What exactly is a ruckus maker? Someone who has found freedom from the status quo. Someone who creates change. Someone who never, ever gives up. Listen to this category-defining podcast in education to level up your leadership skills. Lead with confidence. Lead authentically. Lead by serving your community. Each week Daniel has a conversation with a leadership expert and invites you to the table. Turn your commute (or chores) into professional d ...

Get more out of your business. Discover the strategies you need to master the moving parts of your organization, focus your available resources in one, unified direction and get immediate traction for growth.

What story are you telling yourself? Are you acting as the narrator of your life? Whether you're a C-Suite leader or the PTA president, achieving your marketing milestones and defining your personal brand starts with you. Join hosts Bart Simpson and Matthew Nutt of Flywheel Brands on their journey to learn what tactics can create the kind of momentum needed to reach your potential. Through guest interviews and debated discussions on topics like servant leadership and viral videos, this weekl ...

Better Leaders Better Schools is a world-class podcast created for you --the current school administrator, emerging leader, and educational influencer. Each episode Daniel Bauer interviews top school principals as well as industry leaders to unpack their leadership insights learned via their experiences and mistakes. Discover how to create a winning school culture, focus on the essential, and lead with courage and integrity. Learn how to build relationships, leverage data, and maximize your ...

A Better Life is a podcast for people who want to be living their best possible life and want practical action steps on doing so. Learn how to create a life that’s full of fun, fortune, and changing the world.

Samuel Knickerbocker was showing up one way as a leader, but not the way he perceived himself. That’s when he decided to make a shift on how he interacted with people and to learn how to lead out of love. Now Samuel teaches others to leave a legacy love, forgiveness, gratitude and self-confidence.By Jim Rembach.

Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up. Up next you can hear Daniel Bauer’s interview with Robert Palazzo. They discuss his role as a ...…

Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show is for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up. Up next you can hear Daniel Bauer’s interview with David Domena. They discuss creating memo ...…

Mark Brody was very focused on his team and wanting them to excel. Unfortunately, he realized it was because he wanted to have the recognition for himself and that he was failing to consider the larger ecosystem. In becoming a better leader, he made the mind shift to focus on everybody in the contact center being successful.…

Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show is for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up. Up next you can hear Daniel Bauer’s interview with Joël McClean. They discuss servant leade ...…

Fred Halstead’s positivity can drive people crazy, including his wife. But as a coach Fred knows he needs to empathize with others that are not like him. They may have regrets and need to work through their challenges before they can move forward.By Jim Rembach.

Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show is for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up. Up next you can hear Daniel Bauer’s interview with Afika Afeni Mills they explore 3 skills ...…

Douglas Gerber was a Vice President at Pepsi when one of his regional managers gave him some terrible news. He was leaving for Coca Cola. Douglas found out he left because he felt he was not really part of a team. Douglas vowed to never again let that happenBy Jim Rembach.

Many executives aspire to be great leaders. However, being a great leader isn't enough. Your team members need more from you. They also need you to be a great manager. Leadership and management are like the two wheels of a bicycle: The front wheel sets the direction of the bicycle. That's what leadership is about. The back wheel of the bicycle ...…

Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show is for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up. Up next you can hear Daniel Bauer’s interview with Rebecca Roper. They explore interesting ...…

Samuel Bacharach was a new professor at Cornell and was called out for not following procedures by an office administrator. Initially, he refused to listen but then apologized for his behavior. A year and a half later, this woman helped him to negotiate a salary bonus. From then on, he built his career on the interpersonal stuff.…

Welcome to the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast. This is a weekly show is for ruckus makers -- What is a ruckus maker? A leader who has found freedom from the status quo. A leader looking to escape the old routine. A leader who never, ever gives up. Up next you can hear Daniel Bauer’s interview with his friend Jennifer Abrams. She’s been o ...…

Jessica Hartung is driven to build more mission-driven leaders. The things that are happening in our communities that are the fabric of our lives, are more often led by people who are self-interested and don’t have a healthy relationship with power. And our institutions and communities are suffering as a result. We need to change the way we thi ...…

Known as ‘The Connection Coach’, Tara Brown is an award-winning educator, author and international speaker whose 30-year professional journey has taken her from rural Florida to gang territory in California and to one of the largest high schools in Tennessee with over 43 countries represented. Her international engagements have included Dubai a ...…

Sean Minter had a client that was extremely customer experience oriented. But when he observed his staff trying to deliver a great customer experience on his client’s behalf, he realized they were eager but didn’t have the tools to do a good job.By Jim Rembach.

Barry Saide has been in education for 18 years. He currently serves as Director of Curriculum and Instruction for Tabernacle School District, in Tabernacle, New Jersey. He is a current board member for NJASCD, is an ASCD Emerging Leader, and ASCD Influence Leader. He is a former elementary school teacher, supervisor of curriculum and instructio ...…

Stacey Hanke was doing introductions for speakers early in her career and her boss said she needed to be recorded for feedback and coaching purposes. Stacey reluctantly complied and upon reviewing the taping, she shockingly realized she had a huge disconnect between how she felt and what everyone else experienced. Now Stacey helps others grow t ...…

Maryann Karinch had a mountain climbing experience that was beautiful and satisfying. Not a real mountain climbing experience, but a figurative one. Along with her partner Jim they fought a common enemy in Maryann’s cancer. It was life and relationship saving experience.By Jim Rembach.

At the core, Jaime Jay is a connector of personalities and brands. He constantly challenges himself to be a better human being. He is also an amateur hockey player and starter geek who truly enjoys helping his clients rediscover themselves, their companies and how to realize their ‘WHY’. Worked with clients in Canada, the United Kingdom, Americ ...…

Thompson Coaching and Consulting is the result of thirty years of lessons learned from a seasoned entrepreneur, father, and Christ-follower. Listen is as founder Tommy Thompson walks co-hosts Bart Simpson and Matthew Nutt through his journey of integrating personal and business aspects into a philosophy that has abandoned the belief that life c ...…

Imagine what it would be like to operate in an environment of complete accountability, one in which: Your team members accept responsibility for the Rocks they need to accomplish. Your major initiatives make progress, quarter after quarter. Your company grows consistently and breaks through the ceiling. It's all possible when you can be two thi ...…

Marcia Daszko didn’t know what she didn’t know. Now, she’s a catalyst for challenging leaders to think differently to realize results never before achieved. A protégé of Dr. W. Edwards Deming, she’s co-founded two Deming User Groups, is a co-founder of the non-profit In2In Thinking, and assisted at 20 of the late Dr. W. Edwards Deming's renowne ...…

Jeff Zoul is a lifelong teacher, learner, and leader. During Jeff’s distinguished career in education he has served in a variety of roles, most recently as Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning with Deerfield Public Schools District 109 in Deerfield, Illinois. Jeff also served as a teacher and coach in the State of Georgia for many ...…

Buying, selling, filling orders and keeping it all streamlined. In a fast-paced and high-demand market, you can’t afford confusion in your workflow. Mark Graham, the co-founder, and owner of commonsku, a CRM order management and workflow collaboration software tool, offers an answer to this crucial need. Join co-hosts Bart Simpson and Matthew N ...…

Rick Miller has turned around businesses during a dot com bomb and lead organizations that had to deal with real bombs. And all he did was apply the great lessons his dad taught him at the kitchen table, decades earlier.By Jim Rembach.

Mark C. Perna is the founder and CEO of TFS, a full-service strategic communications and consulting firm whose mission is to share and support every client’s passion for making a difference. As an international generational expert, Mark has devoted his career to empowering educators and employers to unleash the tremendous potential of today’s y ...…

Kory Angelin was like many kids with parents that divorce. But unlike others key values were instilled in him that led to excelling in sales by emphasizing the customer experience. From fitness to finance, Kory teaches organizations to sellout out what they sell.By Jim Rembach.

Jennifer Gonzalez is a National Board Certified Teacher with over 10 years of classroom experience. Most of this time was spent teaching middle school language arts, and the rest was at the college level, where she trained pre-service teachers for the classroom. In 2013, she created the website Cult of Pedagogy, where she now works full-time to ...…

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn grew up trying to investigate and get to know her father to develop a deeper relationship. This led her to develop the AREA Method that gives people a systematic approach to solving big problems leveraging perspective-taking and investigation.By Jim Rembach.

SANDRA NAGY has dedicated her career to driving innovation and building effective organizational strategy. Sandra began her career at Accenture as a Change Management consultant where she supported public and private sector clients through large-scale strategy and business transformation. Two of her years at Accenture were exclusively focused i ...…

At the helm of every great company, you'll find a leadership team packed with great bosses. These leaders and managers have become adept at getting the most out of their employees and motivating them to bring their A-game, every day. However, a recent study shows that nearly 2/3 of the American workforce feels disengaged from their work at some ...…

Chris Westfall wrote down his desired salary on a napkin and the CEO accepted it. He started his new job but only a few weeks later, the CEO ended it. Chris moved his family to a new town for a job that no longer existed. Yet Chris thanks that CEO for the conversation.By Jim Rembach.

After years of working with students and schools as a motivational speaker, Jeff Becker realized that today's students need more. He's now the founder of the national organization Can Do U, and it's from this revolutionary platform that he and his team help busy principals to create the school culture of their dreams through packages of motivat ...…

Nathan Jamail was given orders from his boss and like so many other leaders he tried to get his people to buy-in to the direction. But he learned that what every leader has been taught about buy-in was all wrong and he lost the trust of his people.By Jim Rembach.

Chuck Poole is a veteran teacher of nearly 20 years who has made it his mission to inspire and encourage teachers all over the world to be the best they can be. He is the visionary behind Teachonomy.com, and the host of the Teachonomy Talks podcast. Chuck is the producer of the uNseries, which is a book series to help teacher reimagine teaching ...…

Ed Muzio was running an industry forum for the first time. While he followed the advice he received he missed a few key elements and the meeting went off the rails. Ed was the one that needed to fix it but he didn’t know how.By Jim Rembach.

Tammy Breitweiser is currently a Curriculum Coach in Northwest Indiana where she is dedicated to student achievement in 7th and 8th grade. With over 23 years of education experience, she is a reading advocate who has a passion for writing as well. During the span of her career, she has worked with pre-K through adult learners. Tammy has present ...…

Amy Radin (RAY-DIN), was used to getting organizational resources to innovate and drive change. Then she met Drew and gained a new perspective that caused her to never again complain, or tolerate complaints from others, about not having resources.By Jim Rembach.

John Ewing joined MƒA in early 2009 as President. Before joining MƒA, Ewing served as Executive Director of the American Mathematical Society for nearly 14 years. With a staff of over 200 employees in four offices and over 32,000 members, the AMS is a major publisher of mathematics research and the largest mathematics research society in the wo ...…

What’s your sweet spot? Can you answer this question? Whether you are an Uber driver or a Fortune 500 CEO, if you aren’t currently exercising your strengths in your position, then you haven’t fully tapped into your potential. With a few tweaks here and there, you could be living everyday right in the pocket of the very thing you were made to do ...…

After overcoming cancer at 25, Courtney Elmer has made it her mission to show her fellow female entrepreneurs – especially busy moms – how to eliminate stress so they can feel clear, focused, and in control of their life and business. Through private coaching, online courses, speaking appearances, and exclusive retreats, Courtney changes the li ...…

James (Jamie) Millar needed a different professional platform. He looked around and was unable to find what he wanted to do, the way he wanted to do it. So, he created his own firm that leads executive peer networks to help executives enjoy the insights and relationships they need to succeed.By Jim Rembach.

Steve Shallenberger is the Founder and Chairman of Becoming Your Best Global Leadership, a company based on his breakthrough book, Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders. Becoming Your Best produces transformational leadership, which in turn builds cultures of excellence, which produce high-performance individuals an ...…

Ajit Nawalkha used to have a constant dialogue of self-doubt. Coming from a background that was not very abundant, Ajit fought social comparison and feelings that he was not good enough. But over time with constant re-programming, he’s been able to have more dialogue of “I can” and to help others LIVE BIG.…

Break dancing baseball coaches, pies to the face, and a banana yellow tuxedo. What could they possibly have to do with you and your brand? If blending in with everyone else is your goal, then nothing. But, if you have the courage and desire to set yourself apart from the status quo, you cannot afford to miss our latest episode. In this week’s p ...…

When you want to get better at hiring and keeping the "right people," look no further than your culture. Creating a great culture is a journey that asks you to go beyond buzzwords and uncover the Core Values that define you as an organization. In this episode of the Growing Leaders, Growing Companies podcast, we’ll walk you through: Avoiding th ...…